I’ve added three mods to Valguero.
Additional Dinos: Valguero - Adds some Aberration & Extinction dinos to the map
Hotbar Swapper - Gives you the ability to have multiple hotbars defined and can switch between them. I think this still needs to be configured on the server to work. I’ll be working on that.
Equalized Dino Levels - Dino levels on maps released by Wildcard are weighted toward low level dinos. Levels 15 to 25 have the greatest chance of spawning. On the Center and Ragnarok they changed that and weighted it so higher levels spawn. This mod makes all levels have an equal chance of spawning. While I like getting 150’s like everyone else, seeing a 150 every 5th dino kinda takes some of the challenge out of the game. There is no hunt to find the “perfect” dino. And on the flip side, I didn’t want the extreme of the Island/SE/etc where only 2% of dinos are max level and it’s blind luck to find a good level.
I’ve also finally gotten the floating damage text to work. I tried several times to enable it via the ini, but it was always disabled. I finally added it to the start up command line and that enabled it. So now I can see how much damage my velons do as I machine gun down dinos!
Now for the funny Ark story.
A couple days ago @DinoRancher was out and about and was swimming in one of the lakes. (why? no idea). The local chapter of Piranha’s Angels paid him a visit and ate him just short of the shoreline. Me being the nice guy that I am, I used my ptera to pick him up after he respawned and flew him back to his body bag.
I drop him on the shore line and get ready to fly off because his ptera is nearby, so I figure he can take care of getting gear back. Then I hear “stomp! stomp! stomp!” and 135 carno charges up the beach at us. Since I haven’t dismounted, I just fly up in the air. Dinorancher, on the other hand, is stuck on the ground.
He tries to escape the carno by running into the lake. Gah! The local chapter of Piranha’s Angels is still waiting there for him. So he runs back to shore, where, Gah!, the carno is waiting for him. After a couple back and forth between death by piranha or death by carno, the carno eats him.
Then I killed the carno, got his gear and ptera and fly them back to his base. I don’t think was going to try and get his gear a second time after that.
What was especially funny for me is I got to hear him freaking out while trying to escape (Dinorancher is my son and our computers are in the same room). I laughed about this every time I thought about it for the next 2 days.
